Shifting buggy-top



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- G. ENGELHART -& C. WEIDNER.

SH'IFTINGBUGGY TOP. 170. 297,771.

INVENTOR Maw/ ' ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE ENGELHART AND CHARLES WEIDNER, OF ATTIOA, OHIO.

SHIFTING BUGGY-TOP,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,771, dated April 29, 1884.

Application filed December 13, 1883. (No model.)

I vented certain new and useful Improvements in Top-Buggies, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention consists of a contrivance of the buggy-top supporting rail and the lazy. back supports, whereby therail may be read-.

ily takenoff without taking off the lazy-back when it is'desired to remove the top and use the vehicle as an open buggy, all as hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a buggyseat with the top-supporting rail and the lazyback to the seat attached according to our invention. Fig. 2 is a detail of connecting devices and part of the top rail in perspective view and on an enlarged scale. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the top-bar clips and seat-back supports. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a section of the top-supporting rail, and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the connecting devices and. section of the top rail. represented in Fig. 2.

We make the lazy-back supports a and the connecting devices for the arms b to consist of hook-clips 0, having ascrew-shank, d, to clip the top-supporting rail 6, down on the seatirons f by inserting the screws dthrough holes of seat irons and securing them with nuts 9, so that said top rail may be readily taken off by unscrewing the nuts, lifting up the clips, and removing the top-rail, and that said backsupports and arm-connections maybe replaced and screwed up, as before, to retain the seatback h in place, thus enabling the seat-back to be used when the top is removed.

To seat the top-rail e substantially on the seat-irons f, we construct it with fiat-bottomed sections h, where it rests on'the seat-irons, by which it has sufficiently wide bearings to be sion, 2', reaching to the outer surface of the u hook end of the clip, which is suitably notched at j to receive them, so that the clips will draw down on said extensions 6 for more substantially securing the rail both against any tendency of the rail to roll on the seat-irons and also against any lengthwise movements. The hook ends of the clips also bear firmly on the seat-irons at the side of these extensions when screwed down. The top-supporting rail 6 may also have stud-bolts is, when required, for connecting with seat-irons f intermediately to the places where the back-supports and arms are connected.

The advantage of the extensions '0' will more fully appear when the bolts at k are dispensed with, or rather when not used, and simply rests are used thereat, as is most frequently desirable,

(although by theuse of the extensions 1', together with said bolts,the latter are prevented from being strained,) since, when the toprail becomes worn and would be liable to shift or slide more or less in the clips, the extensions, disposed to fit into opposite notches of the clips, will prevent such movement.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1.'The top-supporting rail having the extensions, in combination with the notched hook-clips of the seat-back supports, said extensions fitting into opposite notches of said clips, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2; The top-supporting rail 1;, having flatbottomed bearing-sections h, with extensions 1', in combination with the notched hook-clips cof the seat-back supports a and arm 11, and

with the seat-irons f, substantially as described. k GEORGE ENGELHART.

. CHARLES WEIDNER. Witnesses:

AB. F. LEPPER, JOHN ENGELHART. 

